Archives: 2018

Colorado shooting survivor signs deal with NFL team

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A survivor of the 2012 movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, has signed with the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers. The team announced Saturday that Zack Golditch was signed on a free agent contract after no teams selected him in this year’s draft, CBS Denver reports. “I was kind of just hanging out and then I got…

Russian fighter jet comes within feet of U.S. spy plane

FILE PHOTO: A Sukhoi Su-27 jet fighter of the Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights) aerobatic team lands at an airfield of the Kubinka air base outside Moscow, Russia, May 21, 2016. REUTERS A Russian fighter jet intercepted a U.S. Navy spy plane over international airspace above the Baltic Sea Tuesday morning in what the European Command is describing as a safe…

Worst cities for spring allergies in 2018

The AAFA used three factors to determine the most challenging places to have allergies in the U.S.: pollen score, the medicine utilization per patient, and the availability of board certified allergists per capita.  Toledo, Ohio, is ranked as the 14th worst place to have allergies in 2018.  Categories: National, US & World News

Top EPA officials resign

Last Updated May 1, 2018 12:31 PM EDT Two top Environmental Protection Agency officials have resigned, amid continued questions over multiple controversies with EPA head Scott Pruitt in charge, CBS News’ Jacqueline Alemany has confirmed.  Albert “Kell” Kelly has resigned as a senior adviser at the EPA running Pruitt’s Superfund task force, as has Nino Perrotta, head of Pruitt’s highly…

DNA leads to arrest in mom’s 1977 cold case rape, murder

LOS ANGELES — Officials in Los Angeles say DNA and fingerprint evidence collected at the scene of a brutal 1977 rape and murder of a woman in front of her two young sons has led to an arrest in the case. Prosecutors say 25-year-old Leona Davis had just put her children, 4 and 7, to bed, when Kenneth Ray Matthews,…

Treasure hunters descend on San Francisco looking for riches

Sequoia Cross, center, watches husband Jeff Cross, right, dig in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for buried treasure. KPIX-TV SAN FRANCISCO — In a lush, green corner of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, Jeff Cross and his wife Sequoia are trying to find something that has been hidden for 36 years, CBS station KPIX-TV reports. “I drove down from Eureka…

Football coach claims he was fired over number of minority players

CHERRY HILL, N.J. — The Diocese of Camden is looking into allegations that the firing of a high school football coach may have been racially motivated, according to CBS Philadelphia. Nick Strom, who is also a history teacher at Camden Catholic High School, claims he was fired because he was too many black students on the team. “At four o’clock,…

Hospital: Injected patients face Hep C risk after nurse stole drugs

Hospital officials say a nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital in Washington State admitted stealing drugs and may have exposed patients to Hepatitis C KIRO PUYALLUP, Wash. — A hospital near Tacoma is issuing a Hepatitis C warning for 2,600 emergency room patients who may have been exposed to the virus though a nurse who has admitted to stealing narcotics. MultiCare Good…

White House press briefing today — live updates

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is taking questions from reporters Tuesday, as the questions special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly wants to ask President Trump have emerged, the deadline for deciding whether to stay in the Iran deal approaches, and as questions about Mr. Trump’s Cabinet continue to linger. Who: White House press secretary Sarah Sanders What: Daily White House…

Shooting victim’s dad sues deputy who didn’t enter school

PARKLAND, Fla. — The father of a student who was killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School filed a lawsuit Monday accusing numerous people and entities of enabling the suspected killer, Nikolas Cruz, CBS Miami reports. He laid a large amount of blame for the shooting at the feet of Broward County sheriff’s deputy Scot Peterson. “He could’ve…

Suspect killed during Homeland Security operation

Crews work the scene after a Homeland Security operation in San Antonio, Texas, on May 1, 2018. KABB/NNS A suspect was killed in a San Antonio home on Tuesday morning as federal agents conducted an operation, CBS affiliate KENS-TV reports. The agents who conducted the operation are with the Department of Homeland Security. The San Antonio Police Department confirmed to…

More questions than answers in teen’s death inside minivan

CINCINNATI — Sixteen-year-old Kyle Plush was apparently reaching for his tennis gear in the back of his minivan when he became helplessly pinned in the fold-away third-row seat. He knew he was in serious trouble. Using the voice-activated feature on his cellphone, he had Siri dial 911 and warned: “I’m going to die here.” He called again minutes later, this…

Fatal police shooting of Somali-American woman probed

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The family of a woman shot and killed by police in this Atlanta suburb is looking for answers. They say a loved one was mentally ill and they were trying to get help for her when they called 911, reports CBS Atlanta affiliate WGCL-TV. The shooting happened just after 7 a.m. Saturday in Johns Creek. Police…